Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

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Health Populi

APRIL 13, 2020

workers were stressed before COVID-19; now, stress levels are through the roof,” based on data analyzed by Ginger , the digital behavioral health innovator, asserting this major mental health headline in its latest press release. Within this 4-in-10 employees, 40% used digital tools for mental health in the last week.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. Rarely does mental health require in-person tests. Telehealth will continue to grow because it fills a void in the mental health space by creating improved access for many individuals who lacked this access previously.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I feature the black barbershop to introduce a chapter on “The New Retail Health.” Check out Geoff Coates’ (known as Sadochicken, from Vancouver) take on “how quarantine hairdos are lookin’,” here.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. The Trust for America’s Health is a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on public health and healthy communities. Expanding and modernizing mental health services and treatment in U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

I’ll point to one that’s become a key learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is mental health care. have a mental health provider in their practice, compared with 9 in 10 Dutch and Swedish primary care practices. communities, worsening health disparities that grew in the COVID pandemic.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2024

. “Because sleep is essential to health, everyone must have access to adequate sleep regardless of location, socioeconomic status, environmental conditions and disruptions, social structures and histories, community and interpersonal relationships, and individual beliefs and behaviors,” the sponsors of World Sleep Day explain.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

have been self-rationing medical care for many years, well before any of us knew what “PPE” meant or how to spell “coronavirus.” ” Nearly a decade ago, I cited the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Security Watch of May 2012 here in Health Populi. Patients in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Analyzing the effectiveness of different methods for delivering care is important to guide decisions about how to allocate resources, according to the study's key findings report. million mental health and psychiatry telehealth visits did not require in-person follow-up. WHY IT MATTERS. Of the more than 4.3 THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

On another front, telepsychiatry keeps gaining ground in the post-public health emergency landscape. With the appropriate safeguards in place, and clinicians at the helm driving decisions that require reasoning, judgment and empathy, AI is going to have a very big place in mental healthcare. How can telebehavioral health help?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Read more… Improving Youth Mental Health at Scale in Texas. One in six Americans aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year. Read more… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Read more… RPM Can Reduce AI’s Bias Problem and Improve Health Equity.

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2021

” This re-look at children’s health data is aspirational because it is laying out how to best measure child well-being to set the bar higher for doing so. It addresses a deficit in previous measurements of childhood health which look at individual factors of well-being versus weaving together their inter-relationships.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Public health in particular can leverage telehealth to great advantage. "Passive" telehealth refers to storing and accessing digital knowledge bases, health and wellness Web content, and interactive software applications that help us understand, prevent, treat, or recover from threats to our physical and mental health.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2018

Then note road injuries, self-harm, drug use disorders, and interpersonal violence — deaths related to safe driving, mental health, physical and personal pain. Depression and mental/behavioral health conditions also feature prominently in years lived with disability. How to deal with these challenges?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services once again (for the ninth time) extended the public health emergency this past month , stretching it beyond mid-July. But sooner or later, that provision of the Public Health Service Act will draw to a close. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2022

We start with key lessons from the pandemic, confront the supply-side challenges we’ve already seen the start of, confess to our thorny sub-optimal solutions to the opioid crisis and mental health epidemic, and deal with the scourge of health equity that mars U.S. health care outcomes, bioethics, and moral imperatives.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2020

The general theme here is that the pandemic is a global phenomenon, and that we humans are very small actors in a very big public health crisis. How to manage risk without complete information on the coronavirus? This would lead to an epidemic inside the pandemic: the erosion of our mental health.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

The drop in deaths from cancer in America was indeed positive during the current public health COVID-19 pandemic, a public health data story easily lost in an overwhelmingly tough week in the U.S.: ” How to flatten the curve of racial disparities in health? This week, people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

That mindset from “my” to “our” wellness is part of my observation of a growing ethos for collective well-being called out in my book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened up hearts and minds , published in September. ” The COVID-19 crisis exacerbated consumers’ financial stress: in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

They also said clinicians reported needing more formal training on how to communicate more effectively over a virtual platform and about state regulation. Regulations that varied widely also affected their use of telehealth platforms.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This type of approach addresses the root cause of insomnia and helps the patient re-learn how to sleep well again. We founded Stellar Sleep with the goal of providing broad access to insomnia care via an app, a solution to a widespread public health problem that was previously unavailable to many.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

COVID-19 has taught health care providers and patients about the benefits of telehealth, enabling early detection, supporting and triaging patients (away from the emergency department and hospital outpatient clinics), and moving care to the home and more convenient, accessible, and risk-managed community-based settings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“In the year ahead, the industry will work to determine which virtual visits make the most sense, and where and how they should take place,” according to the report. “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

A strategic relationship was in development with Microsoft prior to the public health emergency and quickly advanced in March 2020. For some patients, this is important because they don't know their app store password or how to download an app." Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? Q4 – How has the ATA been responding to the coronavirus phenomenon? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge? The President signed the $8.3 No, it’s not from the U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Despite being described as a public health epidemic by the CDC in 2014, insufficient sleep has a catastrophic impact on people’s health, the workplace, and the healthcare system – much of which can be attributed to limited access to care. . Accepting Telehealth Jobs: 5 Big Legal & Ethical Mistakes to Avoid.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Philips, recently named as one of the largest Fortune Global Companies in 2020 (#385, up 46 spots and ranking in the top 10 largest public health care companies in the world), has been working globally with health systems since the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in 2019.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2022

is mired in an epidemic of chronic health conditions, from obesity to diabetes to heart disease to mental health or mood disorders,” the Index’s report explains. The Building H Index is, in their words, flipping the script to reimagine how to bake health-by-design into companies’ product and service offerings.

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AMD Telemedicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Now, many healthcare professionals are trying to determine how to move past COVID-19, asking, “Is telehealth additive or substitutive?” Healthcare is moving to a hybrid model with the public health emergency (or PHE) ending and waivers lifting. Mental health counseling is another prime telehealth use case.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 12, 2018

Psych Central is the terrific mental health community mentioned by “Doc Tom” Ferguson in the e-Patient White Paper, the founding document of our Society. (At ” He continues: It’s how doctors feel about patients, and how we respond to these things, etc., Here’s the story.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The following is a guest article by Vijay Yanamadala, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Sword Health and System Medical Director of Spine Quality at Hartford Healthcare. In 2017, after years of over prescribing opioids to treat pain, leading to opioid addiction for millions of Americans, opioid dependency was declared a public health emergency.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

MeMD, a part of the Walmart Health family, shares its outlook for telehealth in 2022 in areas including value-based care, mental health, provider shortages, transparency and more. More Americans Will Seek Mental Health Treatment Through Virtual Channels. The nation’s mental health crisis is bad and getting worse.

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Enzyme Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

In a hearing this week, members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions asked how many of those changes should be made permanent – and how to make sure the most vulnerable won't get left behind. Dr. Karen S. However, he said, it's still a viable option. " Dr. Joseph Kvedar, ATA.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 10, 2023

By incorporating these strategies into patient education, healthcare professionals can improve patient engagement, increase patient knowledge and self-efficacy, and ultimately achieve better health outcomes. This has enabled patients to receive timely and accurate information about COVID-19, as well as other health conditions.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In this excerpt, Prior explains some of the recent history of online patient-led research pioneers, including Susannah Fox and Dr. Tom Ferguson , highlights how COVID-19 long haulers are the most cutting-edge example, and points to how their methods can be applied to 21st century public health challenges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2021

Mariea Snell, a telehealth clinician at the Maven Clinic and assistant director of the Online Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at Maryville University, worked in an inner-city public health clinic. It offers access to doctors, nurse practitioners, nutritionists, mental health providers and many other resources.

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